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The donations can be dropped off at Fareshare. located at 1240 Speers Rd., Unit 6, every day of the food drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oakville's seven fire stations and the tow n's two Loblaws stores are also accepting donations. Last year's drive netted approxi mately 27.000 pounds of food. Money (in addition to non-perishable food items of course) is also need ed to allow Fareshare to go out and shop for the kinds of food it runs short of. Cheques (for which income tax receipts will be issued) can be sent to 1240 Speers Rd., Unit 6, Oakville. Ontario. L6L 2X4. For more informa tion call 847-3988. In recent months the foodbank has experienced a 15-per-cent increase in the number o f families availing them selves o f its services. Last month 257 fam ilies used Fareshare compared to 215 families at the same time a year ago. This represents 936 people (671 in 2001), 531 of whom (365 in 2001) were children. Fareshare Foodbank, which is run entirely by volunteers, has served needy Oakville families since 1988. No support is received or solicited from any level of government. North councillors want Flynn to apologize By Angela Blackburn SPECIAL TO THE BEAVER H A R D E A R N E D H A R D W A R E : The O akville R angers b an tam AAA rep team won th eir th ird consecutive O n tario M inor Hockey Association (O M H A ) cham pionship at R iver O aks on Sunday. C elebrating, here, with the ch am p i onship trophy, a fte r th e ir 2-1 gold m edal win over Q uinte Red Devils, a re Ben H eersink and Nick Davis. See sp orts section for story and m ore photos. Halton events aimed at eliminating racism By Angela Blackburn OAKVILLE BEAVER S T \F F Tomorrow -- Thursday, March 21 -- is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination around the world. In Halton, a trio of events will cele brate the day in each comer of the region. The United Nations recognizes the day in commemoration of March 21. 1960. when scores of peaceful anti apartheid demonstrators were killed and wounded in the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa. This year the day is particularly poignant because the World Conference Against. Racism is being held in South Africa. Here in Halton, the day will begin with a flag-raising ceremony. The ceremony travels around the region each year and since it has already been staged in Oakville and Burlington in previous years, it will unfold at 8:30 a.m. on the grounds of Milton Town Hall in Victoria Park at 43 Brown St., Milton. Festivities will then head south as the first-ever Cultural Showcase will be held from 5-8 p.m. at the Halton Regional Centre Auditorium, 1151 Bronte Rd. The showcase is being co-hosted by Halton Regional Police and Halton Multicultural Council (HMC), but has been organized by students from around Halton. primarily those affiliated with public and Catholic high school multi cultural councils. The event will feature local talent, traditional cultural food, and displays. Actually, it will be a fashion show of cultural and prom wear, interspersed with cultural performances that will include singing and drumming as well as anti-racism skits. A half-hour intermission scheduled for approximately 6:15 p.m. will pro vide a chance to sample a variety of cul tural cuisine. "There will be the fashion show, cul tural dances and songs and poetry read ings," said Sophia Makridis, the HMC's acting managing director. With a focus on Halton students, var ious cultures will be represented rang ing from Chinese to Indian, and more. "Admission to the Cultural Showcase is free," said HMC show co organizer Joanna Matthews. Donations will be accepted, howev er, in support of a student-founded char ity called Insaaiyat, whose purpose is both to support students in school in a small village in India as well as to (See Awards' page A5) North Oakville town councillors in W ards 5 and 6 want W ard 1 Councillor Kevin Flynn (from the southwest end) to apologize to their constituents. Flynn was initially shocked by the request that he knew nothing about. "From me?" he asked upon learning of the request for an apology late yester day afternoon after a sightseeing trip with family visiting here from England. Councillors Janice Caster and Jeff Knoll from Ward 5, and Janice Wright and Kurt Franklin from Ward 6 penned their expectation of an apology in a Letter-to-the-editor that was delivered to the Oakville Beaver on Monday. The letter, however, wasn't delivered to Flynn. After repeated attempts to con tact Flynn, the Beaver was finally able to reach him just at press time yesterday. Flynn had no knowledge of the letter. There is currently a hiatus of council and committee meetings, which will resume on March 25. Three of the letter writers confirmed yesterday that the request was being made through the Letter-to-the-editor. "I believe if we approached Councillor Flynn at this point, an apolo gy would not be forthcoming," said Cluster. Flynn says he w on't apologize because there's no need. "My first blush at this is that it's completely inaccurate, right from the start." said Flynn. "I haven't got a whole lot o f time for it. "The way this has been done says a lot more about these individuals than it does about me." The letter stated, "As representatives o f Wards 5 and 6 we have been careful ly monitoring our e-mail and the local newspapers for an apology from Councillor Kevin Flynn. It has been a week since Councillor Flynn introduced a motion at Town Council that tried to strip the democratic rights away from our constituents," reads the letter. Flynn said. "I'd put my track record up against any one of these individuals as far as protecting democratic rights." The letter then carries on to outline what transpired at an emergency meet ing of Town council instigated by Flynn on Monday, March 11, the first day of the March Break, and concludes. "For all o f these reasons. Councillor Flynn owes the citizens of our wards an apol ogy" Flynn said he didn't instigate the meeting, merely allowed his fax machine to be used for communication among councillors when e-mail systems went down; that he volunteered to inform the mayor of the desire for the meeting and that he agreed to put for ward the motion. (See 'Accusations' page A5) B E Editorials..................A6 Best Wheels.............. B1 Business....................B4 Focus...................... Cl Classified.................. 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Even better, Olympic medalist Nancy Greene -- who owns Cahilty Lodge, where the couple stayed and is director of ski operations for Sun Peaks Resort -- rode up on the lift with the McDonalds and acted as a witness to the nuptials. Malcolm was bom in Quebec and came to Oakville in 1941 before joining the Navy. After his discharge, he started McDonald Welding, which he ran for 15 years before selling the business in 1965. He also had a home built on Margaret Drive and on the day the basement was excavated, his son was bom. Malcolm then bought a motel in what was then the "sleepy little town" of Ft. Myers. Florida and later built his current home on what is now Montrose Abbey Drive. His family also expanded to include a daughter. Throughout a large part of (See 'Couple' page A2) Malcolm and Brenda McDonald Canadian Putwcattcm MM Product A Q fm m tn M 3& -2Q1 Oakville Volkswagen 557 K err Street I N V E S T . 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